Sooooo, we will not be leaving on Sunday as planned because our trailer is not registered.
A little over two weeks ago, Andy went in to get our brand new trailer registered, but here we need the origional Certificate of Origin document, and all the trailer company gave us was a copy. Phooey. But like I said, this was all over two weeks ago, so Andy thought we had plenty of time. He got on the phone and called up the company to ask them to send us the original document. Well, they sent it…two weeks later. It came two days ago. But when Andy went in Friday morning, yesterday, to try to get the trailer registered again, here the state of Pennsylvania requires the Certificate of Origin to be notorized by the manufacturer, which it wasn’t. I guess only three states require notorization, and of course PA is one of them. So we’ve been weighing our options. Andy thought about leaving last night at seven to drive the 30 hours to the Florida manufacturer and back, but he couldn’t get a hold of anyone at the company to see if they were even open on Saturday. When we finally figured out that they would be open, it was almost too late to start driving, so we looked at tickets for flying. Expensive, and none had a returning flight the same day with enough time in between to get to the manufacterer. We looked into train fare. Also expensive, and it would take over a day anyway.
The last option and the one we decided on, is to fed-ex the document down to Florida. It will get there either tonight or Monday, hopefully the company can get it notorized quickly, and send it back to us by Tuesday. Then maybe we can get the trailer registered on Tuesday and leave Wednesday the 17th.
We are pretty frustrated with the trailer company, and also PA laws. As Andy says, “Let’s just move somewhere where there aren’t so many silly laws – like Alaska!”
But in the midst of it all, we are learning to trust that God has a bigger plan in everything that happens, and will work everything out for our good.